The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-28 00:00:00

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Subscription Night, in lieu of Tuesday, August 2. Mdlle. Emilia Lagrua. ; Signor Gra ziani ; Sig,nor Mario. :THIS EVs'NING (THURSDAY, April 2S, will be per formed Donizctti's opera, LAFAVOIt I VA. Leonora, Mune. Emi is Lagraa ; Inez, Madame Tagliafico ; Alfonso Xl., Signor Graziani ; Baldassar , Signor Attri ; Don Gasparo, Signor Roast ; and Ftrdinando, Signor Mario. Conductor, 11r. Costa. The incidental Divertissement wi 1 be supported by Mille Mdlle. Carmine, and Aidlle. Navarre. Commence at half past Eight. - Pit tickets, 75.; amphitheatre nta ls, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and THEATRE ROYAL DBUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, a Scene from TWELFTH NIGHT. Atter which, will be produced the Grand Stage Revival of Shakspere's Chnnicle or Historical Play, entitled the First Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. The cast will include impersonations by those emint it 'artists, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Waiter Lacy. Mr. A ddiso , , 31r. Ryder, Mr. imobert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Frtzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, M ss Kr se Leclercq, snd Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lithe Ccm pany. To conclude with AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. G. Belmore. lIHEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER: Messrs. Buckstone, Chippendale, Cullenford, Howe, W. Gordon, Clark, Rogers, ate. ; Mesdames Angel, Snowdon, dze. To be fol:owed by LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. Mr. Buckstone. After which, A KISS IN THE DARK. Commence at 7. ROYAL. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE DAY AIeTER THE FAIR: Messrs. Widdi combe, Garden, Moreland, and bliss E. Lavenu. Alter which, Mr. John Brougham's Original Comedy, PLAYING WITH FIRE. Messrs. J. BroughHm, Emery, Widdicomb, J. G. Shore ; Mies C. Leclercq, Miss Henrade, kiss P. Leclercq ; Mrs. Winstanley. Doors open at 7, commence at halt-past. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. For the Benefit of Mr. Ransiord. THIS EVENING, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two Dromios, by the Brothers Webb. After which, A CONCERT. To conclude with KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. Mr. Vining, Mr. 1). Fisher, Miss C. Carson, &c. EW THEATRE-KU YAL, ADELPHI.-• A.l Sole Prooristor and Manazer. Mr. B. Webster. THIS:EVENING,an apropos Sketch, SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Stephenson. Af er which, at 8, LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, It. Phillips, Biiiington, Stuart, Ebarne, Stephenson ; Miss H. Simms and Mrs. iMilington. To conclude with THE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, it. !tomer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. MISS BATEMAN.-L EA H.-THIS EVENING and EVERY EVENING.—Miss Bateman will re-appear in her great impersonation of the Jewish maiden until further notice. In order to give due effect to tuts most remarkable success of the se..son, eatireiy new scenery by the celebratea artists Messrs. Uanson and ons, and Thompson. New dr, ss.s and appo'ntments have be.n prepare i tor its production.—N. is. In consequence of the svessing and numerous applications at the Box-offi,e, ar ingements have tow been made by which Seats m y be ob tained a Fortnight in Axlvan.e. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MY PRESERVER. After which (never acted) MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, Turner, tc. ; Marie Wilton, Simpson, &c. Followed by TURN HIM OUT. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The zrcatly successful new Comedy every Evening. -- First wtek of a new sensation Farce.— Mr..l. Clarke. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular mimes of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. PAul Bedford, Mr. J. Robinson. 111 r, Ashley, Mr. J. Johnstone; Mrs. Char es Mathews, Miss IL rbert, Mrs Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentwortn, and Mrs. Stirring. EVERY EVENING, at 7. a Farce, with a new sensation, called HANDS : Mr. J Clarke, Mr. Ashley. Mr. Johnstone ; Miss Fanny Josephs and Miss _Patti Josephs. At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINING: Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, and Mrs. Stirling. After which, at 10, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. 3lr.Charles Mathews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley and .Miss A. Cottrell. Commence at 7. COALS. —The MLLES HAL L COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 26s. per ton. Double 21s. per ton. Top 255. „ Nuts. l9s. „ Deep .225. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, VT., and 17, South Wharf , Paddington, W. Best Coke ls s per chaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. c'TIHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," jit.. Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGEN'6E, Sul be had Every Eveninq of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, April 28, 1864. - THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 46 Barometer-30.06. Wind—N,E.; mcderate breeze; fine, but rather cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAs.—Morning, 6i. 10m.—Afternoon, 6h. 36m. ko-moßitow.-Morning, :7h. 3:n.—Afternoon, 7h. 40m. TIM SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1864. . , Val g, - -%72: LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1864. GARIBALDI'S Farewell to London has in due course been followed by his Farewell to England. The latter address—rather more lengthy and evi dently more highly elaborated than its predecessor —will be found elsewhere in our columns this evening : followed, it will be seen also, by a brief but earnest expression of his gra!itude to the Eng- Hell Newspapers. As to the farewell address of General GARIBALDI to the mass of our fellow countrymen, while we ourselves here in England may regard it as more than anything else an effusion of feeling consequent, upon the extraordinary recep tion accorded to Gen. GARIBALDI, from the moment of his landing from the Ripon at Southampton to the moment of his embarking on board the 1) Lilco of SUTHERLAND'S yacht the Undine at Ply mouth upon his return voyage to Caprera—it may be as well perhaps to consider for a moment how this document will in all human probability be regarded continental observers. Many a gobemouche on the- European Continent has long ago come to the conclusion that the whole of this amazing move ment her e in England has been the result of pre - a r ran geme _ nt It " means something," they would a r g u e something (that is to say) sinister --some deep design on the part of the English Government. It signifies nothing at all to them— to those dealers in canards, to those discoverers of maresnests, to all that class of infatuated alarmists —that we ourselves here in England laugh to scorn every preposterous imputation of the kind as a something too entirely ridiculous to demand one instant's serious refu tation. We—kno 7i ing full well th e character of our own fellow countrymen, and knowing also full well the character of our leading stateert ('! o , w h ether Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, it matters just absolutely nothing—see the truth so thoroughly that it is completely transparent to us— and, so seeing it, wo know absolutely that insinuations of this absurd kind are in their nature perfectly ridiculous. Punch's great comic cartoonist, Mr. iIiNNIEL, hit the notion very cleverly, in dleed, only a few weeks since—hit it, as orne may say, just exactly between wind and water—where he depicted the ideal Goddess of France in her atelier painting Mr. JOHN BULL'S portrait in the character of an Arch• Conspirator— a scowl on the stout old gentleman's brow, revolvers and bowie knives thrust in his girdle, a guerilla-like sombrero on his pate, the smear of a brigand-like moustache upon his upper lip. And all the while—confronting Gallia—there was Mr. "TORN BULL himself, in the flesh, very substantially in the flesh, giving her goddesship a sitting with an ineffable smirk upon his lips, looking, in fact, as sheepish as any old bell-wether on his downs, as harmless, in truth, as any unweaned calf in his farm yard. That—as plainly as pincil could put it on boxwood—was literally the English of hi Yet, while we ourselves know the fact of the matter to be just as we are here putting it into words from a remembrance of the good humoared satire drawn by the most gifted of all our political caracaturists —we know perfectly well also that such is our national reputation on the continent, that hardly any people in Europe will give it credence, even partial credence. And certainly it must be con fessed we have here in England been blundering, time after time, of late, or at any rate we have been allowing our statesmen so to blunder re peatedly into false positions—yielding thereby a sort of an excuse to the more cynical of our tradu cers on the continent. Things, in fact, have so fallen out here, not once or twice, but repeatedly— that afforded a kind of a colourable reason to the base insinuations of sinister motives and dark underhand designs oa the part of our Government. Immediately before GARIBALDI'S coming to England, for example, there was a certain member of our Administration, a subordinate one, no doubt, (though he did vaunt himself a Minister of the Crown)—but, however subordinate his position, still a Member of the Administration who was detected not merely as being an intimate friend for many years past of MAZZINI'S, not merely as being a sympathiser with, and an eulogiser of, MAZZINI, but as one directly mixed up with Mannar in his Secret Correspondence, the Secret Correspondence of a man notorious all over Europe as an Arch-Conspirator. That came to light—that was dragged to light—with difficulty at first, but fully and clearly in the end—not in any obscure corner of London, bat within the House of Commons itself —immediately before the recent arrival in this country of General GARIBALDI. And, then—after all this extraordinary manifestation of en thusiasm in favour of GARlBALDl—another Minister of the Crown, one who, by his posi• tion, no less than by his own personal importance is entitled to be so defined, is detected (that is really the word for it), is at first with some difficulty, but afterwards quite clearly, found out to have been, on the sly, "hinting" a reason, "hesitating" a cause for GARIBALDI'S hasty depar ture from London, on the spur of the moment, from England immediately afterwsrda—just upon the eve of the opening of the sittings of the Confe rence! Proceedings of this kind, whether on the part of an ex-Junior Lord of the Admiralty or on the part of a Chancellor of the Exchequer, are, certainly (there can be no denying this at least) not above board—and, therefore, it need hardly be added, are not worthy of any member (great or little) of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government. Conscious of these kind of unlucky facts, our more cynical observers on the Continent will not un naturally, under the circumstances, ba putting their own construction upon the wording of this Address of Farewell to England, this Address penned at the moment of his departure from o nr shores by General GARIBALDI. Lord CHELMSFORD'S observations on the subject of the law of Prizes were very much to the purpose, end just at the present time seem very appropriete• It is very important that all who are well qualified to give an opinion upon E u3h topics should come forward at this juncture and lend their aid to the disentanglement of a euject which concerns so many persons, and relates to such varied interests . It is only when men of mark come forward that the authorities will condescend to pay any attention to the eager and expectant individuals who want to know what is going forward, and are very anxious to see some changes wrought in the system. The correspondence concerning the Tuscaloosa was the groundwork of Lord CHELMSFORD'S discourse, and he very ably demonstrated the fallacies of the ex pressions made use of by our Government in the course of the discussion. Certainly our Ministers do not meet with much encouragement in their publication of despatches and bestowal cf corres pondence. There is always some one to get up and declaim against the want of spirit that they have displayed in dealing with this potentate, or to des cant upon the illegality of their claims and the false nature of their policy. Be these strictures true or not in a general sense, it is certain that Lord CHELMSFORD made good his case against the powers that be. He asked whether the Government had recalled their instructions, Rhich was about as strong a hint as he could give that they were of a class suicidal in policy and ruinous in character to those who had sent them forth. No one could have put a case more strongly than did Lord CHELMS FORD in showing the illegality practised by our Government in their actions with the Tuscaloosa from the outset. It is a very good thing to let this subject engross the thoughts and occupy the atten tion of the House and public for a brief period again before the whole question is cast into the limbo of things forgotten. Unwise and incomprehensible as has been the conduct of our Government through. out the whole course of the American war, the Tuscaloosa case stands prominently forward as an example of inconsistency, harshness, and injudiciousness. From first to last there have been a doubt and hesitation and an utter want of proper feeling exhibited that must prejudice our country in the eyes of foreign nations, and militate against the appearance of consistency which we ought to maintain in our relationships to belligerent Powers. Why the Tuscaloosa should have been interfered with at all is a question that may very naturally be asked by the ignorant, and the well-informed mayeee.ee' e e with double earnestness and energy, The injudi. cious interference, and the most Ten warrantable intrusion created an awkward, s it uat i on, an d formed a dilemma ready made, am it were, into which our infatuated authorities plunged them selves double deep, and for all the subsequent con fusions that environed them, and for all the atten dant annoyances and mortifying retractations they had but themselves to thank. So far as anyone can make a sequence to the story or draw a moral from the tale, it was a case of unjust seizure, and shameful spoliation of the rights of others, fol lowed ,by timid retractation, and undignified re scinding of orders. As Lord CHELMSFORD forcibly put the case, the previous instructions must have been either right or wrong. "If they were wrong, her MAJESTY'S Government need have felt no humiliation in admitting their error, and making an apology, and it would further have been an act of generosity to which the Confederates were en tirely unaccustomed." Lord CHELMSFORD went on to above the mistake made in the line ofiproceduretruu. adopted by the Government, if their were right, for they gave the vessel back to its original owners, and then summarily disposseesed them of it. The real secret of all this confusion worse confounded was distinctly given by the noble and learned lord in this short but sharp summary. " The fact was, her MAJESTY'S Government did not like to admit they were wrong, and could not assert that they were right." Matters have truly come to a pretty pass when this is the record fur nished of an official transaction in which our Ministers have been concerned for many months. It needs no political opponent to teach the adhe rents of the Government that a change is impera tively necessary when such tactics rule the hour, and such policy obtains favour in high places. The sooner the debateable point is settled, and the re sponsibility left to the discretion of Ministers taken from those so manifestly incapable of exer cising it, the better. Rules and regulations had better hedge in the conduct of officials in all these perplexing situations, and the law of "neutrals" be too firmly fixed and clearly defined for the veriest partisan to alter it, or the most reckless and prejudiced chief to depart from it. It was a piece of arrogant assumption and gross impertinence to send out such a series of instructions as those which emanated from our Cabinent. Oa this occa sion, as Lord CHELMSFORD very properly put it, there was no authority for the proposition that was laid down concerning the right of neutrals to deal with prizes after the fashion pursued by her MAJESTY'S Government respecting the Tuscaloosa.. Earl RUSSELL'S remarks were very much what might have been expected from the noble lord, full of grandiloquent asseverations and indignant re monstrances that really signified nothing, and would not bear investigation, either as to the validity of his arguments or the consistency of his statements. For the noble lord to have uttered this last sentence, however, was a piece of astounding assurance, of which few could have believed even him to be capable. After descanting upon the several points of the affair, he thus wound up—" It appears to me that in all these cases the right course to pursue is that of perfect neutrality, and that we ought not to show ourselves to be animated by a feeling of partiality either on one side or the other." This is excellent in theory, but who can honestly aver that such principles are put in practice at our Foreign Office ? Have not our Ministers time after time exposed themselves to the ridicule, the contempt, and the indignation of all honest and independent men by their deter mined advocacy of the Federals in every especial particular, and by their unjust and unprejudiced conduct towards the Confederates. The best proof of their very inconsistent policy is afforded by the fact that over and over again they have compromised themselves in going too far to please the Govern ment at Washington, while in no single instance has there been any need to draw back in their friendly movements towards the South, nor in aggressive actions to its opponents. When a Minister gets up in the House and enunciates a principle or lays down a scheme of policy which sounds very well and promises very fairly, and then goes back to his department and directly contradicts by his deeds what he has eagerly and earnestly advocated by his words, a very sad state of things occurs. Such a grievance is now felt by those who seek for public truth and political morality, and beyond the in jurious and injudicious workings of our foreign regulations at present, we have to lament a decad ence in the tone and a deterioration in the character of our authorities at home. It is all a system of shuffling that prevails, and a regular course of action is laid out consisting of bullying the weak and cringing to the strong, so that the old prestige of our national spirit is fast vanishing awap. Those who pursue a devious course cannot possibly be clear in their accounts of themselves or over scrupu lous in their dealings with each other, and one of the consequences of all this double-dealing in foreign affairs has been, that we never get a bona fide statement from Ministers about anything that touches on awkward subjects. One of the most difficult questions connected with our colonial administration came up for dis cussion in the House of Commons en Tuesday even ing. On that occasion Mr. MILLS moved for copies of any correspondence which may have taken place between the Colonial Secretary and Sir GEORGE GREY, relative to tee proposed policy of confisca tion. The hon. member, in a speech of some length, called the attention of the House to the condition of affairs in that country. He deplored the continuance of the war, and regretted that the local Government should have proposed measures which could only tend to prolong it he expressed his belief that the, actual expenses of the war would not fall far short of £1,000,000 sterling, and entreated the House to consider calmly which course it was the duty of this country to pursue, and act upon it without delay or vacillation. The acts which the hon. mem ber brought under the notice of the House must certainly b© regarded as harsh and exceptional measures. Those on the spot can probably best judge of the necessity and desirability of such ex treme proceedings, but they certainly seem to be °posed to the usual principles of English legislation. A military dictatorship may be advisable just now, but the existence of such an exigency is always much to be de plored, and we shall hope that within a very short period Governor and governed may alike decide upon withdrawing one at least of these arbitrary measures, whose extreme severity can only be justified by the common peril of the settlement. The first of these acts confiscates 5,000,000 acres of native land, although a favourable clause is added, giving to innocent persons a right to compensation on establishing their innocence. The other act suspends the operation of the ordinary cou-it s o f law, and to hang, imprison, or other ei; o persona suspected of treaso n , who ware to be tried by a combined court of regul punish "e; and militia officers. The passing of such an :et by the C o l on i a l Legisla ture puts the Hone Government i n an awkwar d position. 7:Loy are loth to countenance such ex treme measure!, and yet, as Mr. CARDWELL very estly pointed out in his clear and temperate reply, it might create serious difficulties were the Colonial Office to disallow the act in question. Mr. CARD WELL went on to say that such a course would, in his opinion, be neither " wise, politic, nor even possible," and in this view we fully coincide. It is difficult for us rightly to appreciate the perplexities and embarrassments of the local Government, placed as they are in the midst of treacherous and disaf fected natives; but of late years they have more frcquently been censured for an excess of leniency than for unnecessary harshness. If, therefore, they have been driven to pass such measures, we may feel confident that they had some plausible reason for adopting a course so foreign to their Renal policy, and it would b e hi g hl y i ndiscreet on the part of the Colonial Off ice t o l essen their injustice and di sc authority, to suggest Awn in our councils to the natives, and to irritate the a l rea d y agi tated and incensed colonists by so abrupt an interference with that privilege of self-govern ment which we long ago bestowed upon them. Under these circumstances Mr. CARDWELL has fol lowed a wise and prudent course, avoiding alike injudicious interference, on the one hind, ands too ready acquiescence in extreme measures, on the other. Without directly opposing the colonial statute, he had endeavoured to restrain its action within just and reasonable limits by his instructions to the Governor. The views which he expressed were such as are likely to secure the concurrence of the public. They included the maintenance of the Governor's authority, the chastisement of the guilty, the demand for a reasonable indemnity, and after the due amount of chastisement should have been inflicted, the publication of an amnesty to all not personally concerned in heinous offences, such as murder in cold blood, &c. It is also suggested that sundry precautions should be taken with a view to preventing injustice, or too great severity. No confiscation is to take place without the personal concurrence of the Governor, and there is to be an open commission for the investigation of any case in which confiscation is intended. It will thus be seen that the authority of the Governor is fully maintained, while due regard is had to the claims of justice and mercy. Tile Home Government has certainly every right to make these suggestions, since it has taken a more than nominal part in assisting the colonists. It has, as Mr. CARDWELL reminded the House, sent 10,000 troops tor their protection, as well as giving them " an able and a distinguished General," for the immediate direction of affairs. Most of the subsequent speakers ex pressed themselves fully satisfied with the state ment of the Colonial Secretary, although conside rable difference of opinion existed as to the origin of the war, some attributing it to the disputes about the possession of land, others to the Maori King movement, and others, again, to the deliberate pur- pose of the natives in the northern island to exter minate the settlers. The difficulties attending the whole subject are undoubtedly very great, and they were shown by the conflicting opinions in the de bate of the other evening. One trouble is, that those who uphold the cause of the natives, do so without any regard for the feelings or risk of the colonists, aud, consequently, their eloquent denun ciations of the inhumanity and injustice of the British fall powerless on the ears of those who have been listening to tales of plundered farms, of burning cottages, and old men and children mas sacred by the wayside. After Mr. Minns's tem perate but decided advocacy of the Maori cause, and Mr. BUXTON'S more vehement language on the same side, Mr. CARDWELL did well to remind the House that this present war had its origin in the barbarous murder of the officers and men who formed part of an inoffensive convoy. Sir GEORGE GREY wrote home to the effect that there was rea son to apprehend a general rising of the Northern natives with a view to the total expulsion of the whites, and having grounds for such an apprehen sion the Governor did well to prosecute the war with all vigour and promptness. All must be unanimous in wishing for the conclusion of the lamentable struggle which is desolating the flourish ing colony, but we may be assured that whatever the successes of our arms, it will need a careful ad. mixture of generosity and justice, of firmness and conciliation, to maintain peace and plenty in our settlements without being driven to a policy of ex termination, THE FORGED DISPATCH, The following " Copy of Lord Lyon6's dispatch referring to the alleged report of the Secretary of the Navy to the Congress of the Confederate States" was published yesterday : LORD LYONS TO EARL RUSSELL.— (Received April 3.) Washington, March 22, 1864. _ _ _ My Lord,—ln my dispatch of 31st December last I en closed an extract from a newspaper containing what pur ported to be a copy of a report of Mr. Mallory, the Confede rate Secretary of the Navy. Your lordship will recollect that the supposed report contained passages avowing the attempts to organise an invasion of the United States from Canada, and giving details with regard to ships of war stated to be building for the Confederate Gi(herEment in England and France. Some stress has, as your lordship is aware, been laid up n this document by Mr. Seward in his communications en the two subjects just mentioned. After alluding to the im portance which he had attached to it, Mr, Seward said to me on the 19th instant that he felt bound to tell me that he had just discovered that it was a forgery. He had, he said, taken considerable pains to discover whether it was authentic when it first appeared, and although he had been unable to procure any Southern paper containing it, he had quite satisfied himself that it was genuine. Recently, however, the person by whom it had been con cocted, hearing of his inquiries about it, had thought it right to let him know that it had been published originally as a mere jet/ d' esprit, and that partly the amusement which it had afforded to see every one taken in by it, and partly the notion that it was injuring the Confederate cause, had prevented an earlier avowal of the truth. Mr. Seward stated that it was very remarkable that no disavowal of the supposed report had, so far as he knew, appeared in the Southern newspapers. Its authenticity bad, indeed, been denied by Captain Maury in England, but Captain Maury might not have had the means of know ing for certain whether it was really authentic or not. There was, however, now no doubt, Mr, Seward said, that it was a forgery.—l have, &c., (signed) LIONS, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. IREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] Reported Rejection of the Armistice by Austria and Prussia. VIENNA, APRIL 28. According to the Oesterreichische Zeitung of to day the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin have (Relined as inadmissible the proposal made at the Conference on Monday for an Armistice, with a maintenance of the blockade of German ports. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Arra'. 27. CHTJRCII RATES COMMUTATION BILL. Order for sec on d readin g read. Motion made an d ques ti on proposed, " That the bill b e now rea d a secon d ti m e." Amendment proposed, to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day six months." Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes, 60 ; Noes, 160. AYES —CO. Arotaall, Capt.M.E. rorde, Ca Miller, T. !,eecrott, G. S. Bentinck, G. W. I'. Gard, it s, ,(G:orl e A:a j y . ,: t V . i o sc . ount Morritr, W. -Pakenhara, Col. Bentinck, G. C. G oddard, A. L. Rose, W. A. Beresford, W. Salt, T. Bremridge, R. WeydeWilton,Lord scourfield, J. IL Sir B. Gro,an Sir E. Selwyn, C. J. iiit a y rv , e s v ir l. B. e a s lr k b e u l r i ' i ton T Bruce. Sir H. zi aMilton, Lord C. Smollett, Y. . Putt, Isaac If somes, Joseph Cartwright, Cagiii ' IV. Col. Bruce, Bridges , C. L . c , Stracey, Sir H. , Sir . Cole, Hon. H. If Tottenham, t. -Col. , ornby, W. 11. g Cole, J. L. -dtime, IV. Treherne, H. Copeland, Ald. Jo nes, 1.). vyse, co'• Du Cane, C. Langton, R. Walcott, Adm. J. E. buncombe, A. .4ann ton, W. r E G. Way, Arthu E. Du Fre, C. 2 - , eslie, W. Whiteside, J. Fellowes, Edward LOng, ii. P. TELLERS. Fergusson, Sir J. Lopes, Sir J. Newdegate, C. T. C. Smith,u rtee, hi:IE. . Finlay, A, c, Ilan, R. . Ilan, G. montagu, LOT.. NOES —ICA Adair, H. E. Marsh, M. 11. Illvart, J. C. Adam,lV. P. Ewing, H. E. C. Martin,J. Agnew, Sir A. A A n it rer k s ' t r e r in, W. I. l : :r il m w o ic y k , 'L,I.O:rdM. Morris, 1). Anson, Major . errand, W. Morrison, W. Anstruther, Sir It Finn, C W. Neate, C. Mildmay, H. Fitzwillfam, C. W. O'Conor Don, The Ayrfotk, A. S. Fleming, T. w . Paget, C. Aytoun. K. S. gwell, J. Foljambe, F. J. S. Paxton, Sir J. Ba Barnes, T. Forster, Charles D. Pease, H. Peel, Sir R. Bass, M. 'V. Gaskell, J. M. Fender, J. Baxter, W. E. Gibson, T. M. rilkington, James Biddulph, - ,Col. It.AI, Bazley, Thomas Gilpin, C. Pollard Urquhart W Gladstone W. E. Beach, W. W. Potter, E. Berkeley, Col. Powell, W. Gore W. R. 0. Berkeley, C. P. F. G ' , L Goldsmid, ' Sir F. ower 1. • Powell, J. Price, R. G. Black, Adam c ß a u r t n le e r gi , C e:T ,S in . Greene, J. Greenwood, J. rrySe, Capt. E. L. Blencowe, J. G. Bond, J. W. Gurney, Samuel Ricardo, 0. lladfieid, G. llouverie, E. P. H R Robartes, T. J. A. anbury, R. Brand, E. B. Robertson, D. Hankey, Thorns= Briscoe, J. I. Robertson, 11. Hardcastle, Jos. A. Ramsdell Sir J. W. Buchanan, W. Roebuck, J. A. Hartopp, E. B. Buller, Sir A. Hayter, Sir W. Rogers John J. Russell, A. J. E. Henderson, J. Buxton, C. llenley, Lord St. Aubyn, J. Selater-Booth, G, Clifford, C. C. Ilibbert, J__,.. - - 1 :. Seymour, A Clifton, Sir R. .C. Ileygate, Sir _F. Hodgson, R. Smith, J. B. , S jacpoole, W. Clive, George Cobden, It. Taylor, P. A. CoehranO, A. b. hum )licrY, W. Tollemache, Hon.F. I Tracy, lion. C. Cogan, W. H. Hopwood , or : ln bo J. T. Batt; W. " Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Jervoise, Sir . 1 . Coke, Ca Jackson, W . Tynte, Col. K. 'Verney, Sir Harry Colthurst, Sir G. KinglakC, A. IV. Vivian, H. H. Collins, T. Ring, lion. F. vv yV ner, Reg,inald Cox, W. Craufurd, E. H. J. Knatchbull - H u g ess Kingscote, Col. aldron, L. Walter John Dalglish, Robert Langton, "ii; H. U. Warner', Edward Darner, S. D. Lawson, W. 'Waterhouse, 6. Watkins, Col. L. Dave, it • __ Leatham, E. ; S. White White Jas. Dawson, 11.. P. ;"*Y"' G. J. '' Dent, John Dent Let, W. Wickham u• W. Dering, Sir E. Lennox, Lord G . G. Williams , _ Duff, n. Lewis, Harvey , W. _ ..., Wood, Sir C. Dunbar, Sir "Wm. Lindsay, W. S . Woods, Henry Dunlop, A. Locke, John Wynn, C. W. W . .' Egerton, Sir P. M`Cann, J. TELLERS. Eleho, Lord Mackinnon,W. A. Douglas, Sir C. Evans, T. W. Maguire, J. F. Enfield, Viscount Ewart, William Manners, Lord J. _____ A ROYAL PAMPIILETEETt.—The Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, under the assumed name of Genranicus Vindex, has just published s reply to the speech made by the Earl of nalmesbury on the question of the Duchio.-- qffiignoi. THE WAR IN JITTLAND. COPENHAGEN, APRIL 27th, 9.15 a.m. On Monday last the enemy marched 10,000 strong to Wiborg. Only a few troops have been left in the towns of Southern Jutland. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, APRIL 27. The Government has presented to the Chambers a very liberal electoral law. The Chambers have been prorogued until the 14th May. A public manifestation took place yes terday against the vote of censure, which they re cently passed upon the Government. To-day the reading of the message announcing the prorogation of the Chambers was enthusiasti• cally applauded by the people. The Prince leaves to-morrow for Moldavia. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. LEMBERG, APRIL 27. It is reported that two engagements have taken place between the Poles under Bossak and the Russian troops. The official Warsaw Gazette acknowledges that fresh bands of insurgents have made their appear. ance. Publication of an Evening Edition of the " Moniteur," PARIS, APRIL 28. On and after the Ist May next the Moniteur will publish an evening edition, SPAIN, MADRID, APRIL 27. The birthday anniversary of the Dowager Queen of Spain has been celebrated today at Aranjuez by a grand reception. The Ministers have all left Madrid for Aranjuez. DEPARTU'RE OF GARIBALDI, FALMOUTH, Arnm 27. The Undine left Saint Mawes at six this morning. The weather was fine. Ricciotti landed last night at the Royal Hotel Falmouth. He will proceed to London today by the 12.41 train. QUEENSIOWN, APRIL 28. The Inman steamship City of London,from New York on the 16th inst., arrived here at 12,30 a.m. to-day, with 213 passengers and 821,476 in specie. She landed 33 passengers and proceeded at 12.40 a.m. FRANCE. In regard to the Conference the Patric says : " We learn from London that the proposal for an armistice emanating from the Cabinet at St. James's has been rfjected—in other words, referred to the different Cabinets far consideration. This dilatory proceeding is the utter ruin, ab initio, of Lord Pal menton's policy. How is it possible now to admit that France can take up the refusal of the belligerent Powers, and associate herself with the desires for energetic action supposed to be entertained by the Cabinet of St. James's ? The French Government must say to itself to-day what public opinion loudly proclaims—namely, that al; the misfortunes which Denmark are owing to the hesitating policy of the English Cabinet, and that it is not for France to repair the faults of England. France cannot but say, with everybody else, that if the English Go• vernment had sincerely desired an armistice, Lord Palmerston, who convoked the Conference for April 12, before the taking of Duppel, would not have put it off till the 20th, to give the Prussians time to in vade Jutland. In consenting to take part in the Conference, France has signed no pact with Eng land; she has neither fettered her will nor her action. She may have doubted of the success of the tardy effort of British diplomacy, but would not, there fore, on that account refuse her participation—that is all. The concurrence of France was given, but the effort turns cut to have been useless, and now the Imperial Government cannot go further. Prus sian policy triumphs, and it triumphs by the aid of England. This consideration may perhaps console the Cabinet of St. James's ; but it must impose upon France a reserve all the more absolute that neither Europe nor Denmark can now misapprehend the entirely loyal conduct of the Emperor," BOURSE, April 27.—The market opened at a decline on the closing rates of yesterday, but soon afterwards recovered. Threes, for the Account, which commenced at 66f. 70c., are now at 66f. 85c. Mobilier. after having been done at 1,1761., have since advanced to 1,205 f. The Railway Market has been heavy, and with prices iti some cases lower. The market continued buoyant t 8 the close, and left off as follows 41 per Cents..... , 93 60 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 05 Credit Mobilier 1230 Do. end month 1237 50 Bank Shares 3375 Credit Foncier 1270 Roman — Italian Loan 69 10 Do. end month 69 15 New ditto — Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 6l 73 dome Debt Deferred - •••••• (Are. Cash. Account. 890 . 887 50 975 .. 972 50 950 .. 952 50 887 50 .. 675 505 480 .. 480 -- 371 25 .. 367 50 415 ~ 417 50 MS .. 660 492 60 .. 49J 575 675 270 275 BA IL Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediturranean New ditto Southern .. Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lou'bard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona .. 672 50 DEATH OF MB. KERSHAW, M.P.—lntelligence was received by electric telegraph yesterday, in Manchester, of the death, at Streatham, Surrey, of Mr. J. Kershaw, one of the members for Stockport, and head of the firm of Kershaw, Sidebottom, and Co., cotton spinners, manufacturers, and calico printers, Portland-street, Man chester. Mr. Kershaw was born in 1795, and was one of the successful men of the day. He started in life as a ware house lad, but showed such eminent business qualities that at a tolerably early age he was made a partner in the mer cantile firm of Lees, Millington, and Cullender, of which ultimately he became the leading partner, It was not till some years after that he became a spinner and manufac turer. As a liberal politician he took part in most of the stirring events in Manchester from 1830 forwards, includ ing the Reform and the Anti-Corn Law League agitations. He was a member of the Council of the League, and sup ported the movement liberally with his purse as well as with his voice and personal influence. He was a subscriber of £l,OOO to the " Great Anti-Corn Law League Fund," as it was termed, and about the same time he subscribed £l,OOO towards purchasing public parks for the people of Manches ter. He was also a liberal supporter of schools and foreign missions. So munificent was he in his desire to promote any work which he thought to be good that it is said in a single year his name was down as a subscriber to three different objects to the amount of £l,OOO each. He was an earnest supporter of the movement for obtaining a charter of incor poration for Manchester, was elected an alderman of the first Town Council under the charter, and was made Mayor of Manchester in 1843, holding the office for two years. He became a candidate for the representation of Stockport in Tarliamant with Mr. Cobden in July, 1847, but was de featel. In December of the same year, however, on Mr. Cobden vacating his seat at Stockport to accept a seat for the West Riding of Yorkshire. he stood a second contest, and was elected. 'He continued to hold the seat till his death. He was held in high respect both in Stockport and Manchester. He lost his only son some years ago, but Reve -1 rat doglatge sUrlive him, - - Field Marshal Viscount Combeere, G,C.B, The public will have learned with pleasure that this venerable and gallant veteran is the subject of a proposed monument, commemorative of his military career and his private worth, about to be erected in Chester by public subicrption. A list of contributors has already appeared, and their numbers are daily increasing. Meetings have been held in the Castle of Chester to decide upon the form the intended memorial shall take, the locality to be chosen, and the artist to whom the work shall be entrusted. The Lord Bishop of Chester, the Earl Grosvenor, and the leading names of the county are upon the committee appointed to confer on the subject with Baron Marechatti, the proposed scu'ptor. It may be interesting at this moment to recapi tulate the several services in the career of this distinguished soldier.• Lord Conaberreere is the eldest son of the late Sir It. Stapleton Cotton, M.P. for Cheshire. He was born in the year 1770, en tered the army in 1791, and served in Flanders in the campaign of 1793-94. Two years later he em barked for the Caps of Good Hope, under Sir T. Craig, in command of the 25th Llght Dragoons, and, accompanying his regiment to India, went through the campaign of 1793499, against Tippoo Saib, and was present at the siege of Seringapatam. In 1808 he accompanied Lord Wellington to the Peninsula in command of a cavalry brigade; here he particularly signalised himself during the cam paign in the north of Portugal, and in the opera tions of Oporto, and afterwards at the battle of Talavera. In the following year he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, and in 1810 he was appointed to the command of the forces under the Duke of Wellington. In this position he remained till the close of the war in 1814, dis tinguishing himself at the head of the cavalry upon every occasion, and being frequently men. tioned in the dispatches. He covered the retreat from Almeida to Torres Vedras, and took part in the battles .of Busaco, Fuentes d'Ocor, and Salamanca, where he was severely wounded ; and also in those of the Pyrenees, Orthes, and Toulouse, In 1817 h© was appointed governor of Barbadoes, and commander of the forces in the West Indies, which he exchanged in 1822 for the chief command of the British forces in India, where he was at the head of the troops at the siege and capture of Bhurtpore in 1825-26. A peerage had been granted to him for his Peninsularservices, and he was then seised to a viscountcy for his Indian exploits. On the death of the Duke of Wellington he was appointed constable of the Tower of London, and lord lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets, and in 1855 was advanced to the rank of field marshal in the army. His lordship is a G.C.B. ; he also holds an appointment in the Court as gold stick in wait ing to her Mejesty. He is now reposing in the quietude of his Cneehite home, rich in years, and full of honours, after a period of active military ser vice extending far beyond the average life of man. The Capture of Fort Pillow. The Montreal Ocean Mail Steamship Company's screw steamer Hibernian, Captain Dutton, which left Portland, Maine, on the evening of the 16th inst., arrived in the Mersey at one o'clock yesterday afternoon. A telegraphic summary of the news has already appeared. The particulars of the capture of Fort Pillow are given in a despatch of the 14th from Cairo, Illinois, as follows :—" The attack began on Tuesday morn ing, the 12th. The Confederate General Forrest soon sent a flag of truce demanding tilt surrender of the fort and garrison ; in the meanwhile so disposing his troops as to take the advantage of our forces. Major Booth, who commanded, refused the flag of truce, and the fighting recommenced. After wards a second Rig came in, which was also re fused. Both flags gave the rebels the advan tage of gaining new positions. The battle was kept up until three p.m., when Major Booth was killed, and Major Bradford took command. The rebels now made such a furious attack that our men were compelled to surrender. Immediately upon the surrender, a scene ensued which baffles all de scription. Up to that time comparatively few of our men had been killed, but instantly on takkg possession of the fort the fiends commenced an in. discriminate butchery of the whites cud blacks, including those of both colours who had pre viously bee❑ wounded. The black soldiers becoming demoralised, rushed to the rear, the white officers having thrown down their arms.. Both white and black were bayonetted, shot, or sabred. Even dead bodies were horribly mutilated, and children and several negro women were murdered in cold blood. Soldiers, unable to speak from wounds, were shot dead, and their bodies thrown into the river. The dead and wounded negroes were piled in heaps and burned; and several citizens, who had joined our forces for protection, were killed and wounded. Oat of the garrison of 600 but 200 remained alive. Major Bradford is said to have escaped. The steamer Platte Valley came up at about 3.30 p.m., and was hailed by the rebels under a flag of truce. Some men were sent ashore to bury the dead, and take aboard such of the wounded an the enemy had allowed to live. 57 men were taken aboard, includ ing 7or 8 coloured ; 8 died on the way up. The steamer arrived at Cairo, and was immediately sent to Mound City, to discharge her suffering oargo, Six guns were captured by the rebels, and carried off. A large amount of stores was destroyed or carried off. The intention of the rebels seemed to be to move on towards Memphis, and capture the place." Another despatch of the 15th, from Cairo, says: —" Three other negroes were buried alive by the rebels at Fort Pillow, making five in all. All were wounded but one; he was forced to help to dig pits, and was then thrown in and covered with the rest. " General Chalmers said to a Federal officer on the steamer Platte Valley that it was their initen tion to show no mercy to Southerners serving in the Union army and negroes ; but the genuine Yankee would ba treated as a prisoner of war." A correspondent of the St. Louis Union, who was on board the steamer Platte Valley, at Fort Pillow, says many of the wounded were shot in the hospital. The remainder were driven out and the hospital burned. On the morning after the battle the rebels went over the field and shot the negroes who had not died from their wounds. Of 3O coloured troops not more than 66 escaped massacre, and not one officer that commanded ti em survives, General Cnalmers told this correspondent that, although it was against the policy of his Govern?. ment to spare negro soldiers or their officers, ho had done all in his power to stop the carnage, but at the same time he believed it was ri2,ht. Another officer said the white troops would have been protected had they not been found on duty with the negroes. STATE OF TRADE. DUNDEE, April 26.—The demand for flax, tow, and codilla is entirely consumptive, and only small sales are reported. The Riga ships are Low coming in, which will supply spinners and keep the market quiet. Jute is also in very moderate request, and rather easier to buy. The inquiry for all deacrip• tuns of yarns, flax, tow, and jute is still active, and prices are fully maintained. There is no change in the demand for linen, the orders coming in quite as fast as they are produced, and manufacturers both of coarse and fine fabrics arc very busy and largely foresold. NOTTINGHAM, 27th.—There is a shade re ore do ing in several branches of the lace trade this v. - ee k ' Cotton goods are in a little better request, and rt.! silk Mechlins and quiltings the demand is very active. Black silk laces and edgings still remain a dull sale, but stocks in the dealers' hands are be. coming lighter. There is still a very little doing for Germany, and no improvement for the continen•• tal market is expected while matters remain so un. settled. In hosiery there has been a fair amount of business doing, and business generally remains healthy. Yarns are very firm, with an upward tendency. SIGNOR MERCADANTE is announced as having completed a grand overture, with uo ICE 3 taking a title than 6 ; The Polish Ineurrectiont" --:_. ~--7•,,, --..., ~r, ~.., (11111341/ -. ‘c(fil'itllbr: __, HER DIAJE ST Y. The Queen, Prince Alfred ° , F nReNe Princess Louise walked out yesterday. Prince Leopold took a drive. s B e io:s, Helens, A pril 27 ; d A deputation, introduced by Mr. Ewart, ALP. , the Hon. Alrrnon Egerton, M.P., and Mr. C. ' Ta ner, M.P,, had an interview with Lord Palmersto of. tl . at Cambridge-house yesterday upon the sub j ect the African trade. The depra at i on consisted al Messrs. R. and W. King, of the Anglo . Af ricsn Cimpany of London ; Messrs. Lucie, B rothers, and Co., of Bristol; Messrs. Thomas Ha.rrison, G. 11. Horsfall, A. Ashmall, Peter Stuart, Peter D ou g las' G. T. Cookson, E. Hatton, I. Tyson, S. J. Arnold'l. Cornish, T. Cieaton, and J. B. Cooper (secrets i to the African Association), all of Liverp ool. Despatches were received yesterday a t the Coloa nial-office from the Governor of Prin ce EdWar Island. The Duchess Duchess of St. Albans and Viscount Falk; laud entertained a select party at dinner last evening' a their residence at Princes-gate. for The Countess of Verulam has issued ea r-s a dancing party on the 11th of next month, at her raars'"" in Great Stanhope-street. to bis The Earl Granville has been confined pre residence in Bruton street, for some days past, b y a 661 cold. S a ra The Earl and Countess Spencer and LadY Spencer are expected to arrive in town about the raid u ' w° May, from Egypt, for the season. hal The Earl Howe, since his arrival in toWns -- been confined to Curzon House by indisposition. Field, Marshal Viscount Combermere and V+iht countess Combermere are not to arrive in London for season until the second week in May. Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Rede l h i r , f f il received a select circle at dinner last evening st tP residence in Grosvenor-square, (Well Lord and Lady Henniker and the Hon. Ph.n" Henniker are expected in town early next week, ' Thornham Hall, Suffolk, for the season, THE CONFERENCE, The Paris papers of this morning publish ° Oil° details respecting the Conference. La France says : "At the meeting of the Conference on 1 1 °. the first question mooted was that of an artn istle n d The demand was made conjointly by Franco Ti e s England. We are assured that the plenipot entica jr l of the German Powers had come without all ti structions on the subject, and that they ha ve b : obliged to refer to their respective Governtaol39' La Patrie says:— " We have received from various sources nee ° fl ute , gt of the sitting of the Conference on the 25 01 ' l3 l - 1 ; The proposition of an armistice was O r n s . brought forward, with the condition that the s the pension of hostilities should not imply that o existing blockade. The plenipotentiaries of A llBn ie and Prussia at once declared that they bad a ° s i, structions on that point, but accepted the P r°P° ti st tion ad referehduna, that is to say, that they to consult their respective Governments." The London correspondence of the IndepBo -100 Beige contains the following : All 00, " The Conference met on the 25th. - e r pleripote.ntiaries were present. After having bt changed their credentials, Lord Clarendon broute, forward the proposal of an immediate arteitlev, fhe proposal was supported by the plen i P c't oe tiaries of France, Russia, and Sweden. i t gibe rise to a somewhat lively discussion betwee n i be representatives of Austria and Prussia °I 3 6 one hand and of Denmark on the other. F il3 ife ci tha Austrian and Prussian plenipotentiaries 05;13, for the time necessary to refer to their o° ve eo ments for instructions, and the Conference has be adjourned until they have received them." The Journal des Debuts says :—" We do not r fe . tend to know everything that passed at the c °o si e rence on the 25th instant, but what results oee e. expect from a Conference which finds itself P 4 go lysed in its action at the very outset by such o trfi a % proceedings as those of Austria and Prussi e, h ii to ire telresdy roiling heavy stones into the P t ' obstruct the action of diplomacy P' , o g'„ rtb• A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, date' **" gives the following extract from the London e-; spondent (telegraphic) of the Abend po st, jour" Yestenal üblished at that capital f— p rday (25th), the Conference met inP• e 01 l . A provisional suspension of hostilities by lanuf;bo by sea was proposed, with the mainten ance °` existing blockade, until a resolution has been adopts respecting the armistice. wag "The plenipotentiaries of the belligerent 1 3 ° 10 have accepted the proposition ad referendr47/40. await instructions from their respectiv® Gllce ments." the The Abend-Post observes that the clause far tics maintenance of the blockade during the ariof•°o4 scarcely admits of the probability that Austria Prussia will accept the proposition. Ts es SCOTTISH NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO THE D i ' to t CONSORT.—A meeting of the acting com mitte e of promoting the Scottish national memorial was 115,1340 Edi n burgh on Tuesday, under the presidency of the •",„iie of Buccleuch. His grace reported that he had n ot /Oros opportunity last summer of ascertaining the Queen'Oltioe on the subject, but he had lately been in commun e A 0 with General Grey, to whom he intimated that them ° -01 con s id e r a ble anxiety felt as to what form the 19e°1ayd should take, both in regard to the site and the deeig s, e or e her Majesty had been pleased to follow very much tivira cedent set in London of naming a small committee ° , 4 ,„` to assist her with their counsel in the m atter. l i raer er epo of t 11 had already decided that Edinburgh, as the Sco! i, Scotland, was the most appropriate place for a datermio national memorial, but nothing had yet bee n either as to the mode of obtaining designs, whether laciee or by express invitation to leadingartists, or a s to the P ito it situation and character of the design. On these nrivio° would be the duty of the committee to give the je°lcor gol 3, In their power. The committee named by her gt 00 sisted of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the IZt Sir William Gibson Craig, the Right Hon. Sir J. ` ‘ Z eoe tial l Sir John - Watson Gordon (president of the Royal ion ol v dig joit , Academy), Dr. Lyon Playfair, and himself , cussion took place as to the position of the acting ° ice d t ° tee in the present circumstances, when it was reat% e pia thank the Duke of Buccleuch for the steps lie had t'ti accordance with the request made to him, and to 511 . 1 0 0 3 ' further expression of her Majesty's wishes as to the 61 01$' nature of the memorial, Several members expressetl'ill ; o. selves in favour of an open competition, but tti' s t oat feared would deter many eminent artists who rnrg re' cl : forward on invitation, A statement of accoun ts w 3" from which it appeared that the fund amounted t ° cc tiaf , £13,000. Five designs which had been sent in to tb ° ,,' ta committee were produced, several of them cossll9—vititi sculpture, others combined architectural coreposi li°ll ; :iei sculpture. They were handed over to the covalnpelt° advice. A vote of thanks was then tendered to the of Buccleuch for presiding. , re at SHAKSPERE'S REPRESENTATI VES. —In ot year of Jubilee, the 300th of Shakspere th e oe tr and the last, it will be singular if something new 0 es ot mg him, his family, his fel lows, or his works, a ° Oa °1 come to light. lira fear the chance of learning 50011' new;st corroborating anything old about him, is b ilt eg ola ti As to his family, the mine has been pretty nearly out. Mr. Harnesss found a new husband for Mrs' Do ra s p ere , o ne Richard J ames ; M r . Col li e r provided o°4oooll w ith a new son , of the name of E dward ; and fool' the a s the line of Shaks p ere 's own descendants c ooed ° to sag deat h of Lady Barnard, in 1670, it seemed difneull:4o4o' the least of it, to furnish him with a new legal rer-yeal tative. Yet oven that feat was essayed by on (10' Peahen, who, in 1841, made public her cla im l°1"-jo at, tinguished honour. We do not remember how 001 tempted to prove her claim ; nor do we see how s' w oe°, have done so, unless she established au illegitinist°_ „i t et from the unkn ow n lady who, t h an ks to the forgetiv; Gale' Armitage Brown and Thomas do Qnincey, has be c e i , rated as the joint mistress of Lady Pembroke and B 9 sper ,:.—Unce a Week. ' C HE& P EDITION OF " LES ISEBAW'' 4. , Da ge Victor Hub: ° ' —Messrs. Hurst and Bi4' h and cheap edition of the a t t e e c t i zi e ov 'z' e ; „ just issued a rare' Victor Hugo's celebr .„.. stra ted Y, fish translation of volume, beautifullyvolitu"Atile of the ir Miserables," in a single ming the ne t vr s o e lega nt Millais, price ss. bound, fce fr, !s resen cheap___. chas ers ' 0 popular standard library. P as many p orc h. " The form, the work will doubtless fiat. ut i n eat• . , n the ly Rev o f England as it has already met wit - euar ter merits of Les Miserables,' " says the fo it a wil ° ,4 "do not merely consist in the conception of unequal It abounds, page after page, with deter beauty."